Romance and Retribution
As an institution grows and evolves, it inevitably requires reform, but that task can only be entrusted to those who have its best interests at heart.
Jamie Palmer
· 34 min read
Culture Wars
A collection of 172 posts
Racial Slurs and Deferential Condescension
We are effectively being told that, at this truth-seeking institution, it is inappropriate for us to utter certain indisputably true statements, because the value of truth is trumped by the emotional states of one or another demographic.
Matthew Small
· 5 min read
Science Fiction Purges its Problematic Past
Instead, as speculative fiction becomes more diverse, the sense that it must be corrected grows, and author and art are evaluated together.
Craig DeLancey
· 9 min read
The Return of the 'Witch Hunt' Analogy
The best way to prevent such perennial misuse of the “witch hunt” label would be for Americans to stop themselves before they allow their moral fervor to get out of control and run roughshod over the legal rights of others—in other words, to refrain from witch hunting in the first place.
Tony Fels
· 9 min read
It's Time for 'LGB' and 'T' to Go Their Separate Ways
Gay rights activists simply want society to accept their different ways of living and loving—since gay men and lesbians pursue romantic interests and build families in ways that are at odds with conventional heterosexual expectations.
Brad Polumbo
· 10 min read
The Defenestration of Domingo
Domingo’s entrepreneurial drive has been as untiring as his stage career.
Heather Mac Donald
· 16 min read
Buying Fentanyl on the Streets of San Francisco—An Interview with Heather Mac Donald
Cities are one of the great accomplishments of human civilization.
Michael Shellenberger
· 7 min read
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity—A Review
The chapter on Trans issues is particularly revealing in regard to the way the different “building blocks” of intersectional theory come into conflict with one another.
Johan Wennström
· 8 min read
The Dangerous Life of an Anthropologist
It took a long time for Chagnon to acclimatize to the deep interior of the Amazon Rainforest and its unique threats.
Matthew Blackwell
· 24 min read
The Cancelation of Shane Gillis Provides the Mob with Another Win
It’s easy to join a Twitter mob. You take zero risk if the takedown doesn’t work, but you pretend you’re Rosa Parks if it does.
Jamie Kilstein
· 7 min read
Understanding America's Cultural and Political Realignment
To understand our politics, we need to understand the cultural values that drive it.
Richard Tafel
· 11 min read
In Praise of Renoir's Male Gaze
Renoir’s nudes are the evidence of a tirelessly hopeful soul struggling against the dingy reality of the modern world, with its modern industry and its modern warfare, that turns all human flesh into disposable objects, without joy or humanity.
Marilyn Simon
· 8 min read
Once Upon a Time...Film Critics Became Joyless—A Review
Tarantino is quintessentially American. He lets us linger and watch Tate in all her Technicolor radiance. He lets us love her. What’s more, he lets her watch and love herself.
Steven Volynets
· 9 min read
PODCAST 48: Professor Bruce Gilley on Anti-Conservative Bias on Campus
Toby Young talks to Bruce Gilley, professor of political science at Portland State, about not being able to get his course on conservative political thought approved by his faculty, and his efforts to fight back against progressive authoritarianism on campus. He recently published a piece in Quillette about why he
Quillette, Toby Young
· 1 min read
Knitting's Infinity War, Part III: Showdown at Yarningham
The post brought out the worst of the knitting world’s anti-racism mobs
Kathrine Jebsen Moore
· 9 min read